A suspected case of Ebola Virus
Disease, EVD, has been detected
in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state
capital, a highly placed official of
the Rivers state Government has
confirmed to premium times.
The official said,“Yes, there was a
case of Ebola death. We are
tracking everybody.”
Seventy people suspected to have
had contact with the case have
been tracked and quarantined,
the official said.
It was reported yesterday that a
doctor in the Rivers state capital
had died from what appeared to
be Ebola.
The unnamed doctor,
according to reports from
Sahara Reporters, secretly
treated a diplomat who had
contact with Patrick Sawyer,
the Liberian-American, who
brought the virus to
Nigeria.
The doctor reportedly died
on Friday, while his wife
had also taken ill and now
quarantined in Port
Harcourt.
The diplomat treated by the
doctor is still alive, the
report said.
The diplomat is believed to
be among those who met
Mr. Sawyer on his arrival in
Lagos. He then flew to Port
Harcourt where he took ill.
He was treated at an
unnamed hotel in the
Rivers state capital, an
official said.
The doctor’s hospital, Good
Heart Hospital, as well as
the hotel where he treated
the diplomat, have been
shut down, reports say.
This development, if
confirmed will be a big
blow to Nigeria’s effort to
contain the deadly virus.
With only one case being
treated in Lagos, the
Minister of Health had
declared Tuesday that
Nigeria had succeeded in
checkmating the spread of
the virus in the country. Source Premium times